How might our network serve the OSAF?

Hello, I double checked as to what happened to this discussion, and I 
guess it just faded out when the wiki started up.

I understand that this group is a place to discuss "all issues relating 
to how OSAF works with the Open Source community".

I am the Director of the Minciu Sodas laboratory, http://www.ms.lt, 
serving and organizing independent thinkers around the world.  We have 
working groups for "interconnecting tools for organizing thoughts" 
http://www.ms.lt/ideaflow/ and "organizing an economy for working 
openly" http://www.ms.lt/openwork/  I find Chandler exciting because it 
is an intersection of the two.

Our laboratory is self-supporting.  My current concern is to develop a 
coaching service that would cross the corporate wall, linking up 
corporate thinkers with individual innovators, to help the former learn 
to work openly (as you do here!) and the latter to get contacts within 
corporations (which is very tough).  We are including in this coaching 
service "idea feeds" that are drawing information, in the public domain, 
from various "hot spots" (see the right hand side of http://www.ms.lt) 
I am writing here in part that I might link up our efforts into a 
network of such "hotspots" that we might help each other.

In particular, I think that the OSAF might ultimately harness our 
network of innovators to reach corporate clients.  I'm very interested 
how our network might serve the OSAF.

I include below a list of tasks that I'm now pursuing to link up groups 
such as ours.

Peace,

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
[email protected]
+370 (5) 2645950
Vilnius, Lithuania

A) Highlight and support individual projects
    1) be responsive to people amongst us who need help
    2) maintain a list of our projects
    3) help identify shared endeavors
http://ms.memes.net/index.php3?request=displaypage&NodeID=99
    4) relate our lists to other lists such as idealist.org, 
lazyweb.org, thinkcycle.com
    5) think of projects as investigations - this will allow other 
thinkers to join in
    6) create a questionnaire for describing the investigations: what is 
being challenged, what is being explored, where is it being publicly 
conducted, what kind of help is needed?

B) Create infrastructure for supporting endeavors
    1) list endeavors (especially those that foster "caring about thinking")
    2) acknowledge and list "hot spots" of activity for each endeavor 
(various discussion groups, wiki boards, discussion boards, social 
networks, etc.)
    3) work to interconnect them with weekly summaries, ideafeeds, 
ideafeeds.com having liaisons
    4) encourage "hot spots" and their leaders to generate as much 
material as possible into the public domain
    5) encourage software makers (like socialtext.com and blueoxen.net) 
to build in options to set defaults to encourage the public domain
    6) expand our registry of material that is primarily public domain 
primarilypublicdomain.org
    7) acknowledge as "residents of the public domain" the people who 
are continuously generating useful material in the public domain, such 
as Flemming Funch http://ming.tv , Doc Searls http://doc.weblogs.com
, Denham Grey http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?DenhamGrey
, Aaron Swartz http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ , etc.
    8) encourage free access and/or membership to the "hot spots" for 
residents of the public domain.
    9) create databases of such public domain material that can be used 
to populate tools and websites (for example: 
http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=4416 )
    10) create a map of the "hot spots" and participants, indicate their 
activity and purpose
    11) create tools for chartering endeavors, attracting people, 
involving them and encouraging progress

C) Create modest ways to make a living by working openly
    1) create a coaching service for working openly to link up corporate 
thinkers with individual innovators. The former get a broader, vibrant 
view, and the latter get corporate connections and a bit of money. (a 
bit like cluetrain.org but for more concrete ideas see
http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=5641
    2) get advice from corporate knowledge workers on what kind of 
coaching service would be most useful.  Design a questionnaire.
    3) organize ourselves as a network of coaches with various strengths 
and interests.
    4) create a public list of enterprises/divisions/positions that we 
might approach as a group, and publicly poll ourselves, collect 
comments, as to which we would find most attractive.
    5) approach them with our comments on behalf of our group as to how 
we might all work openly.

D) Organize bold ways to fund an economy for working openly 
http://www.ms.lt/openwork/
    1) list and approach foundations that might fund prototype systems 
for working openly  (some at 
http://ms.memes.net/index.php3?request=displaypage&NodeID=171 ) see our 
proposal "Local innovators for Global enterprises"
http://www.ms.lt/en/workingopenly/LocalForGlobal.html  and also more boldly
http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=5352
    2) identify commercial interests that would benefit from applying 
our system of working openly to win all manner of funding earmarked for 
integrating Eastern Europe into the European Union, or for rebuilding 
Iraq.  http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=4209
    3) think through how investors might appropriately earn a return 
from setting up our system of working openly to win all manner of 
funding.  http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=5476
http://www.ms.lt/en/workingopenly/compensatingcreators.html
    4) identify and approach progressive enterprises that might apply an 
economy for working openly to integrate partners and develop markets in 
strategic areas.
http://www.ms.lt/en/workingopenly/MinciuSodasProposal.html

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